Google is funding AI writers for local UK news reporting

The UK Press Association (PA) will soon hand writing duties on thousands of local news stories to robots. Cue headlines about the death of news media (seriously, though, this might be a problem). The project -- dubbed Radar for "Reporters And Data And Robots" -- will see computers create 30,000 news stories for hundreds of local papers. Although it may not be groundbreaking, the PA believes Radar will provide a boost to local news outlets at a difficult time.